Thanks!

Down here in Peru, we eat a lot of rice but I can’t picture myself growing rice in my backyard! It’d be a swamp and affect the foundations of the house. Nor can I picture barley, wheat or anything like that.

The local media has touted switching our consumption of wheat-based bread to potato-based bread. But, can you grow potatoes in the backyard? I don’t know. What I’m sure is that my grandma who lives in her little farm in the highlands doesn’t have rice, nor wheat-based bread for her regular food but boiled potatoes with dairy products and meat. But this is not the diet people in the cities would picture for their daily living.

Maybe is time to switch diets? I noticed this is what Adoniram Judson and his family had to do when they arrive to Burma to preach the gospel. And they didn’t get sick for adapting themselves to this new lifestyle.

Maybe being missional will have to involve switching diets too.

I disagree. You only have to be more creative.

Some ideas? Offer people to clean their toilets, bake cookies for them, etc, to kick things off. I think people in America’s suburbs or farms would be more willing to take you into their houses if you start that way unlike people in cities who tend to be, in my opinion, more suspicious about strangers.

Or you could try something a friend of mine told me his small group once did. They went around the neighborhood in co-ed groups of two or three, knocked on people’s doors and asked them if they have any prayer requests. Several opened and welcomed them. That can provide an opportunity to share the hope we have in Christ.